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Saturday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPHxmApril 20, 1940:

LATE NEWS

NARVIK

SEA FIGHT

Hardy Sorvivors Tell Ship's Loss

London, Apr. 10. Almost the last words of Capt. Warburton-Lee, after he had been

CHINESE PRODUCTS

JAPANESE REVENGE

that

Hostilities. In Village Near Shanghai

Shanghal, Apr. 19.

The Evening Post reported to dny

Japanese

avenging troops, guerilla action, early to-day set fire Associations Formed To to houses at Chutin, five miles west

Promote Sales

tice.

n

of Shanghal, after dragging the women from the village and issuing The Hongkong branch of the Chi-warning to shoot anyone trying to Thereafter, rifle fire was heard. nese Products Manufacturing, and indicating that the querillas had re- Sales Association, purported to boost turned and clashed with the Japanese. Chinese products, was formally or Truckloads of Japanese troops Kunised at a meeting of prominent rushed to the village from Shanghai Chinese financiers and Industrialists during the night, accompanied by at a luncheon meeting at the Hawpar half

tanks. The Japanese dozen Mansion, Tal Hang Road, yesterday. held the

village, responsible for At the same meeting the Chins sheltering the

guerillas. South-west Industrial Development A Chinese woman, who reached Association aliming at rallying the the International Settlement in # nation's industrialists for South-west wounded condition yesterday, report- development was also formed.

ed that the Japanese early on Tues- Mr. Yuan Wei-yang, General day killed 200 Chinese civilians in

report on the after the guerillas had killed two

soldiers.

to the paper, many farmers were arrested as guerillas

and made

futally wounded on the bridge of the practer of the Cluna Can Co., Ltd., Paozai, a few miles west of Shanghal,

can organisation of the local branch of Japanen

destroyer Hardy, were "You swim for it now, boys." He died the Chinese Products Manufacturing inter on the beacli.

and Sales Association the course of and executed. The Japanese are

Dr. C. T.

Wang

This story of the Norvik Flord battle was one of many told by the survivors of the Hardy as they pass ed through northern railway station to-day on their way to Lon-

Able Scanun Dunn said the Hardyte saw great possibilities for Chinese art from

a speech, urged the Chinese, manu- also suspecting Japanese-controlled facturers to push the sales of Chinese Chinese troops of having conspired products to the South Seas countries, with the guerillas. especially the Philippines, He said The paper that while he was in Manila recently,

don.

that

one Chinese re- which alleged detachment of

Japanese led the second destroyer flotila into goods,

controlled Chinese troops, which ar- action in a „snowstorm about 4 a.m. Other speakers included Mr. Yip rival in Soochow from Shanghai on April 10, The

recently, have been surrounded, dis- destroyers tor-Lan-chuen and Mr. P. Gockchin. pexloed everything in the harbour, Twenty-one

executives for the armed and interned. The officers are four German destroyers and a num- Hongkong branch of the Chinese at present being questioned. ber of German merchant ships being Products Manufacturing and Sales United Press. sunk. Later the Hardy was driven Association were elected. They in- nground.

clude Messrs. Sung Han-chang, Tu Yuch-shen, Wang Helao-lai, Yip Laa- chuen, P. Gockchin, Yuan Wel-yang. Wang Chino-shen, Hsu Chi-liang and Dr. Ö. S. Licu.

Capt. Warburton-Lee and other officers were fatally wounded. The survivors jumped from the ship as about 200 she capsized and awam yards through ice-cold water to the shore.

Clashes With Guerillas Chinese troops of the new Fourth

Shanghai, Apr. 19.

Route Army

rescued the querillas encircled by the Japanese along the Shanghai-Tsingpu highway, Lor Mr. Y. C. Chien was elected Chair- Shanghai, on Monday und partici- which re- "The Germans were firing on us man of the Executive Committee for pated in heavy fighting,

China When we swan ashore the as we owam.

South-west Industrial sulted in the defent of the Japanese, we made for three cottages on the Development Association. Members according to Chinese reports, cliff where

The Japanese garrison at Tsingiso, we were very kindly of the committee included Messrs. treated and some of us were supplied Tu Yuch-shen, Wang Halao-lal, Yip near the Shanghal western suburbs, with all

all sorts of clothing, including Lan-chun, Sung Han-chang, Yu are said to have suffered heavy losses some

Liu Lu-chi, Tsai Ching-in mopping-up operations, which women's

wearing apparel," Yun-chu, sald Dunn,

nan, Yuan Wel-yang and Hu Shin-were followed by a bigger expedi The survivors then walked about cheng-Central News. 15 mlies to a village which they reached about nightfall, the wound-

ed being carried in improvised am- bulances. To keep one man warn, he was wrapped in window curtalni and part of women's corsets. Reuter.

Welcome In London

London, Apr. 19. A-treat-welcome-awalts_the_130 Hardy men when they pass through London this evening. Since reports of the landing, the public had been

for news of Walling eagerly

their The Best news came when they

rived last night, still wearing Nor wegian

clothing, at a Scottish port. Details of their landing in Norway, which had been described by the Press DS "small military expedition of their own," were given by mem- bers of the crow.

After being damaged the Hardy had to run for the beach. She kept firing as she made for the shore and the crew believe a number of hits was made on German vessels.

The survivors, when they arrive In London this afternoon, will drive in omalbuses to the Horse Guards Parade where they will be welcomed by the Board of the Admiralty.

The normal complement of the Hardy was 175 men.

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